The chemical, Pyriproxyfen, messes with the hormones that help mosquito larvae hatch (an exchange that doesn't happen
in human births).
There are contraceptives for females, including some of the same hormones used
in human birth control and even IUDs, and contraceptive methods for males, including vasectomies and castration.
Since the 1970s, IVF has been used to aid
in human birth.
Not exact matches
We're still learning more each week about what the
birth defects associated with the virus looks like, and how long it stays
in humans.
Oktay, who has been involved with testing the procedure
in a clinic
in Turkey, reported the
birth of a healthy baby girl at the European Society for
Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) annual meeting on June 17.
Super
human abilities
in the movies seem to come only from freak accidents or alien
birth.
The offense against religion is that it promotes a God that has poorly designed
humans to have too small a
birth canal, too large a cranium (pushing wisdom teeth into often painful positions), and since roughly 20 percent of pregnancies end
in miscarriage, is responsible for more abortions than anyone.
Bottom line: BO is still not aware of the basics of
birth control and still remains the leader of the Immoral Majority and will remain so until he becomes a true Christian and one who respects and protects
human life
in all its forms and who at least emphasizes proper use of
birth control methods and the responsibility involved!!!
Your question is obviously biased towards there being more than 3 basic events
in a
human life;
birth, life, death.
The point of this is that Jesus
in his quality as
human being had no control on his
birth at all, where and by whom he should get born.
Apparently your God liked more babies dying but science had a heart and now
birth mortality rates are higher than they have ever been
in human history with fewer diseases and complications causing baby deaths.
The image of the first
human in Genesis 2, who is either male with a female element or sexually undifferentiated (the adam or earthling), from whom God then extracts a part to form woman, is no endorsement of attempts to erase one's
birth sex
in order to transition to the opposite sex.
While Christian feminists willingly admit that women and men have often been differently socialized, and that there may even be some differences
in human capabilities between the sexes, that is no more fundamentally constitutive of humanity than place of
birth or color of skin.
Parents are not reproducing themselves; they are giving
birth to another
human being — equal to them
in dignity and bound to them
in ties of kinship, but not created for their satisfaction.
And then that moment of
birth being one of complete relief and release and joy, yes absolutely, but instead of popping champagne corks or bursting into laughter, I cried from the core of myself — like some ancient writer said, I lifted up my voice and I wept, because she was finally here and we were alive and we were safe and I felt held by the God - with - us; it was the most
human and most sacred thing I'd ever done
in my life, it felt like a glimpse of Incarnation.
No theologian or counter-circumstance-experience can take away from what I know, what many mothers the world over know
in their heart of hearts about loss and
birth and raising babies and real transformation: it's Love and it is sacred and it is
human and it all redeems.
In fact, those
human moments are are the sacred moments —
birth, grief, work, death, suffering, sex, joy, laundry, all of it.
In the New Testament, the priest is not a priest by natural birth but by God's new and specific intervention in human history in the conferring of the sacrament of order
In the New Testament, the priest is not a priest by natural
birth but by God's new and specific intervention
in human history in the conferring of the sacrament of order
in human history
in the conferring of the sacrament of order
in the conferring of the sacrament of orders.
In her femininity she responds to God's Life - giving decree and gives
birth to him with a true
human nature through the consent of her will and the fruit of her womb.
For consider your call, brethren; not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble
birth; but God chose what is foolish
in the world to shame the wise, God chose what is weak
in the world to shame the strong, God chose what is low and despised
in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no
human being might boast
in the presence of God.
-- signed, a
human being that God placed by
birth in a region of this world where christianity doesn't exist
John Montague came by his mature faith honestly: Sent back to his family's Ireland from the Brooklyn of his
birth, enduring separation and a simple life
in the complex North, he married
in his works the intimately
human and the broadly historical with a seamlessness that few have achieved.
So were first - born lambs, kids, and calves, following the Lord's instruction that the firsts of all
birth belong especially to Him (first - born
human sons are redeemed with monetary payment to priests,
in a ritual still practiced today).
But the Virgin
Birth, like the Cross itself, confounds what we think we know; it confounds our belief that power, whether
human power or the brute force of nature, prevails
in the world.
Even if the date and place of Jesus»
birth may be uncertain, the claim that God entered
human history is central to traditional Christian belief, as the British poet Sir John Betjeman (1906 - 84) indicated
in his poem «Christmas»:
Just as the Virgin
Birth, and the physical Resurrection of Christ are and were requirements of his literal Divinity and uniqueness upon the
human scene, so also this type of development to which we appeal can not take place, except
in a Church which claims the infallible magisterium on earth of the same Jesus
in the name of his Divinity, and can manifest a line of consistent and coherent, definition because she has done so.
Faith is present
in the
human being from the point of
birth, and it is
in the infant that the intellectual content of faith is at its absolute minimum.
The circumstances surrounding his
birth enable both Abraham and Sarah to see the permanent truth about parenthood: Children are not man's products or creatures, and thus the pride that
human beings naturally take
in their own children as their own children is vanity and self - delusion.
While practicing Christians may be justifiably disappointed
in a sterilized «happy holidays» from their grocer, even this greeting extends something beyond the all - too -
human midwinter bacchanalia historically provided by Saturnalia and the Mithraic
birth, or today by New Year's Eve.
human beings, «born free and equal
in dignity and rights,» are entitled to
human rights «without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property,
birth or other status.
God created Adam — and Eve — an adult, he was a fully grown man at one - day - old, and gave him the
human nature (passed on to us) of growing fully over nine months
in the womb and 18 - 21 years or so after
birth.
In Eddy's theology, Jesus» virgin birth, crucifixion and bodily resurrection were the pivotal events in human history, absolutely indispensable to human salvatio
In Eddy's theology, Jesus» virgin
birth, crucifixion and bodily resurrection were the pivotal events
in human history, absolutely indispensable to human salvatio
in human history, absolutely indispensable to
human salvation.
Can faith, for example
in the virgin
birth, lead to faith
in other untested facts like, 2 + 2 = 5, or to following our leaders into a pointless war that permits torture of other
humans?
My opinion is that
birth control (I am not speaking of abortion) is a good thing because it prevents a lot of
human suffering, especially
in Africa and other poverty - stricken areas, where AIDS is rampant.
As a Communication Act: The
Birth of a Performance, by Richard F. Ward Performance is a resource for homiletics because it addresses this problem of integrating language, sound and movement
in an oral, interpretive act
in human communication.
He had to mislead some followers of the Vedas who were killing animals on the plea of some Vedic sacrifices which allow animal sacrifice to give the animal a
human birth in it's next life.
By this «dispersive» view the socialization of the
human mass becomes a retrograde step and a state of monstrous servitude — unless we can discern
in it the
birth of a new «shoot» destined eventually to bring forth stronger individualities than our own.
Christians, however, may understand the decisiveness of Christ as the moment
in evolution when God's promise and self - gift, which have been continually and creatively present to the cosmos from its
birth, are embraced by a
human being without reservation.
Though the Word breaks out into the daylight of consciousness only with the
birth of persons and
human history, faith allows us to discern a great promise even
in the very earliest moments of the cosmic adventure.
Paul, who surely had little if any firsthand experience with the wondrous process of
human birth, tells us that all of creation — which means all of humankind, all of us — is groaning
in the pangs of childbirth.
«As bishops and defenders of the
human rights and religious freedom of all, weare alarmed by the deteriorating situation of Christians and other religious minorities
in Iraq... Christians
in particular are caught
in the middle of civil strife between Sunnis and Shiites... We are deeply impressed by the courage of many Christians who remain
in the land of their
birth.»
It is interesting to note
in this context that family therapy broke out of purely intrapsychic relations into wider systems of relationships that characterize and condition us all; and now we see the more recent
birth of «ecological» therapy, where the concern broadens to include
human relationships to the fullest extent possible (see FFT 256ff.).
if
humans had just fell
in line with religious teachings and never asked questions other than «god did it»... then people would still be dying
in child
birth, the common cold, small poxs etc etc etc. i find that we survived a s a species to become the alpha predator of this planet and the achievements we have made since then to be amazing; attributing everything
humans have achieved to a god just cheapens the value of our achievements as a species.
It was the age of Confucius
in China, of the Buddha
in India, and of Mahavira, founder of Jainism, the period also when the principal Hindu Upanishads were written, of Lao - tzu and the flourishing of Taoism
in China, of the prophet Zoroaster
in the Middle East, of the great transformative prophets Ezekiel, Jeremiah and second - Isaiah
in Israel, and finally this was the period of the
birth of philosophy and science and what we call Western culture
in Greece, all these developments at the same time arising independently
in different cultures for reasons not yet fully understood — a kind of quickening of
human consciousness all over the globe.
So then, remember that at one time you Gentiles by
birth, called «the uncircumcision» by those who are called «the circumcision» — a physical circumcision made
in the flesh by
human hands — remember that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God
in the world.
The best known incarnations are Rama and Krishna,
in whom Vishnu took on a fully
human life, including conception,
birth and a natural death.
with Paul's guidelines
in 1 Corinthians 1 - 2, a community made by people which Paul describes as «Not many of you were wise by
human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble
birth.
As an aspect of God the Logos has existed since the beginning, and at the
birth of Jesus of Nazareth became incarnate
in this
human being.
The fall of Adam and Eve, the covenants with Israel and its deliverance from bondage, its falling away and punishment through new sufferings, the speaking of the divine word through the prophets, the
birth of Christ
in human flesh, the life and death of Jesus, the experience of the resurrection, and the history of the Church, the expectation of the final events and the established reign of God
in love and peace — all this is the Biblical understanding of what God has done, is doing, and will continue to do for the judgment and redemption of the world.
Nevertheless,
in the very name of the Incarnation itself, and the majesty of divine wisdom contained within that economy of
human salvation, we insist urgently upon the fact that the
birth of Christ is the summit not only of theology and philosophy, but of the material sciences as well.